Nov 19

Use the Tab key in user-created keyboard shortcuts in Snow Leopard. In OS X 10.5, pressing the Tab key while creating keyboard shortcuts (in the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel) didn’t work; the system would just beep and not accept the Tab key.
Snow Leopard Expose

In Snow Leopard you can now use the Tab key in any combination with the Shift, Control, Command, and Option keys. For example, you could change the Exposé All Windows activation keystroke to Option-Tab, which might make sense if you’re used to using Command-Tab to switch applications and want to have a similarly-assigned shortcut for Exposé.

  • Open the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard System Preferences panel
  • Select the Exposé & Spaces entry in the left-hand column
  • Click on the All Windows entry below Exposé in the right-hand column.
  • Double-click on the right-hand side of that entry
  • And just press Option-Tab

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and you’re done.

You can now use the Tab key in your user-defined shortcuts, which opens up a number of additional keyboard combinations.

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Sep 29

Sound Source MenuIf you want to quickly change your sound input device, simply Option-Click the Sound menu at the top of your screen to enable an alternate menu pulldown list of input devices.
This trick is much faster than launching into the System Preferences and adjusting from microphone to line-in audio source. As far as I know this is new to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

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Sep 21

Dan Frakes goes over some of new hidden features in Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6).
This video will be very useful for new users in Snow Leopard.

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Sep 04

While not much of a hint, for those who do not like their minimized windows taking up so much space in the Dock, now you can have them minimize into the dock icon.

  • Open the Dock System Preferences panel,
  • Check the Minimize windows into application icon option.

Once you do that, minimized windows will disappear into their source application’s Dock icon.

Snow Leopard Dock

Snow Leopard Dock

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Sep 04

The newest version of OS X, Snow Leopard (10.6)  has time zone automatically function built into the OS.
To enable this

  • Go to System Preferences
  • Select “Date and Time”.
  • Select the “Set time zone automatically by location” option.

This works using CoreLocation, just like the iPhone. Even though it’s just an option. Once you do this, your time zone will change as you travel.

Date & Time Panel

Date & Time Panel

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